(Read before the American Philosophical Society, March 20, 1885.)
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1885.
CONTENTS.
[The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages.]
§1. Introduction, [p. 3]. §2. Humboldt’s Studies in American Languages, [p. 4]. §3. The Final Purpose of the Philosophy of Language, [p. 7]. §4. Historical, Comparative and Philosophic Grammar, [p. 9]. §5. Definition and Psychological Origin of Language, [p. 10]. §6. Primitive Roots and Grammatical Categories, [p. 11]. §7. Formal and Material Elements of Language, [p. 13]. §8. The Development of Languages, [p. 14]. §9. Internal Form of Languages, [p. 16]. §10. Criteria of Rank in Languages, [p. 17]. §11. Classification of Languages, [p. 21]. §12. Nature of Incorporation, [p. 22]. §13. Psychological Origin of Incorporation, [p. 24]. §14. Effect of Incorporation on Compound Sentences, [p. 25]. §15. The Dual in American Languages, [p. 27]. §16. Humboldt’s Essay on the American Verb, [p. 28].
[On the Verb in American Languages. By Wilhelm von Humboldt, p. 29.]
Verbal forms classified as they indicate the notion of Being: